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Jun 30, 2022
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December 2020
The Flywheel #8: lululemon’s White Space
What lulu’s crossover to menswear means for its acquisition of Mirror When lululemon acquired Mirror this past summer, the joke was that now lululemon…
Dec 28, 2020
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The Flywheel #7: DoorDash Delivers a Fairy-Tale Flywheel
Among the fun byproducts of writing The Flywheel is that people now send me flywheels. When someone sees a flywheel, has a question about a flywheel, or…
Dec 28, 2020
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The Flywheel Reader Survey
Thanks for your support! I really appreciate you taking the time to help me achieve my 2021 goals for The Flywheel. I wrote more about the journey and…
Dec 25, 2020
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November 2020
The Flywheel #6: What’s On Deck for Business School
Why the teachers of disruption are squarely in its crosshairs. It is an open secret that business school is not really school. Students may spend a…
Nov 17, 2020
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The Flywheel #6: What’s On Deck for Business School
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The Flywheel #5: Zillow and the Innovator's Dilemma
Why Zillow was willing to risk a perfectly fine flywheel for a much more complex and risky one. Let’s play fantasy CEO. The year is 2018, and you are…
Nov 17, 2020
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The Flywheel #4: Stitch Fix's Long Thread
[Full disclosure: I own a modest amount of SFIX shares.] In previous editions of The Flywheel, I’ve told the story of companies—Peloton, Zoom…
Nov 17, 2020
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October 2020
useEffect: HTTP Requests
Making HTTP requests are side effects! So we use useEffect() Async/Await? As we saw before, the only thing you can return in useEffect()s is the cleanup…
Oct 26, 2020
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useRef and useEffect: DOM Interactions
We use Ref when you want to track something and update it without triggering a rerender. If you want to trigger a rerender you can just use state…
Oct 21, 2020
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Managed vs. Derived State
In Epic React Kent takes us through the exercise of building a Tic Tac Toe game. Anyone who has tried learning React before has probably seen the Tic…
Oct 21, 2020
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Serendipity on the Internet
When I quit my super stable, high paying job at Amazon, I explained to my perplexed mother that I was quitting to "leverage the potential for…
Oct 12, 2020
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Lifting State
A question that comes up often is how to pass state between components. The answer is to lift the state up to the closest common ancestor and sharing…
Oct 10, 2020
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